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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." We brought a group of ten environmental justice lawyers from throughout North America to work in partnership with grassroots women leaders in Bolivia, with the focus on sustainable agriculture and food security issues.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. It was about woman entrepreneurs who were sending their children to school with the money they earned, even though they were living themselves on a dollar a day. And, their weapon is poetry.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well. Women and children are 70% of those who live on less than $2 or $1 a day.

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